Re:Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies
by jwalton on Friday April 23, 2021 @12:37PM
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> If you only include legal offerings, absolutely not.
I have plenty of ebooks from Baen and Tor, and plenty of music I've bought from a variety of places, all in digital format, all without any DRM. It's not the "digital" part that's bad, it's the DRM part.
Re:Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies
by Tostino on Friday April 23, 2021 @12:29PM
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GP was talking about the format of digital media, not the usual protections put in place on what is currently offered legally.
You're back to conflating the two.
Re:Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies
by m-p-3 on Friday April 23, 2021 @05:27PM
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And there are some unsung heros out there breaking those DRM schemes. I feel way more comfortable creating a DRM-free copy of Blu-rays I own, and I don't feel I stole anything from anyone or did anything morally wrong
If you include modern piracy in with "digital", sure. If you only include legal offerings, absolutely not.
Even DRM'd physical media that doesn't use the network in any way to authenticate is way better than DRM'd digital media, which you can never truly own, and which exists at the folly of the service operator.